Gender locked race?

[username1234]

lol @ people thinking we'll get another bara race
male roe are less than 3% of active players
SE knows cute bunboys are where the real fantasiabux are at

[Seraphor]

lol @ people thinking we'll get another bara race
male roe are less than 3% of active players
SE knows cute bunboys are where the real fantasiabux are at

That's because (male) Roe are ugly as sin. We don't all want to cosplay Wreckit Ralph.
Highlanders are dull and have a poor selection of faces.
Au Ra are probably the closest to a decent, interesting masculine fantasy race, but the horns are divisive.

Many people have requested more options for male characters over the years. It's a broad spectrum ranging from classically handsome to ruggedly handsome, lean to outright bulky. It just so happens that whenever there's a push for such things, it gets silenced by a very vocal portion of the community.

This. There's always people asking for more male and masculine options. Mainly in the context of glamour, but also for races too based on what I've just said.

It's clear that most of the demand for Viera is for female Viera, and while there's certainly significant demand for male Viera too, I can see why they'd be torn on what to implement, based on the different demands, and the lore, which they seem to be trying to protect for once.

[Lauront]

lol @ people thinking we'll get another bara race
male roe are less than 3% of active players
SE knows cute bunboys are where the real fantasiabux are at

There's awful a lot of ground to cover between roegadyn and "cute bunboys", which is exactly what Yoshi has been resistant to considering in the past.

Thankfully I can fall back on midlanders or au ra if I don't like the male variants of the new race(s) added.

Hyur makes come pretty close and I played one for a while. But being hyurr is frankly boring and again the faces are just not it. I play miqote now because I’ve settled with cute.

But none of these give you beautiful male model style vibes.

This is what I see.

Midlander- average to very handsome young male with a average body type
Highlander -hot muscle dudes who will keep your butt
Roe- big burly bear men.
Aura- beastly dragon men
Miqo- mostly cute but also possible to be very masculine looking .
Eleven- tall nerdy to rude looking men with very sharp jaws

There simply isn’t a race that is designed to be beautiful modelesque creatures for any races.

Now the viera come and the women have beautiful runway model looks.
I want men to have that high fashion male model look. And that simply isn’t available in game

Strictly speaking, there's a number of races which actually do fit that aesthetic. Elezen probably come closest. If the issue is the facial selection, would it not make more sense to simply ask for more facial options?

In many fantasy games elves are beautiful and stunning not only in physical looks but in prowess on the battlefield. This is how I imagine the viera. Gorgeous and wise and also dangerous. Beautiful men is very common in Japanese anime and ffxiv. Omega m is stunning but he will kill you. He is also very androgynous but leans toward male.

Yes, except he's not talking about beauty, per se.

Omega M is also a robotic construct. I don't even consider him particularly attractive, nor do I consider Seiryu beautiful.

They just lack what is required to captivate me. Ironically, most prominent examples of elves have far more masculine facial features, be it any Warcraft elven race, TES elves, the WH elves, the Aen elle from Witcher, and even a lot of the D&D elf art.

My guess is that our standards of what is beautiful differ by quite a bit. I already consider many of the auri and midlander male faces to be quite beautiful.

[artyport]

There's awful a lot of ground to cover between roegadyn and "cute bunboys", which is exactly what Yoshi has been resistant to considering in the past.

Thankfully I can fall back on midlanders or au ra if I don't like the male variants of the new race(s) added.



Strictly speaking, there's a number of races which actually do fit that aesthetic. Elezen probably come closest. If the issue is the facial selection, would it not make more sense to simply ask for more facial options?



Yes, except he's not talking about beauty, per se.

Omega M is also a robotic construct. I don't even consider him particularly attractive, nor do I consider Seiryu beautiful.

They just lack what is required to captivate me. Ironically, most prominent examples of elves have far more masculine facial features, be it any Warcraft elven race, TES elves, the WH elves, the Aen elle from Witcher, and even a lot of the D&D elf art.

My guess is that our standards of what is beautiful differ by quite a bit. I already consider many of the auri and midlander male faces to be quite beautiful.

Dude. Plz Omega M is Hot.

and his physical body structure and face style is not available in game.
I'd Love more customization options but they are not doing that.
I'm also kinda of happy that Elezen are the way they are.

Whats more annoying is that people keep asking for MORE MACHO options when they already have 3 to chose from and pretty boys only have midlanders who have kinda weird shaped bodies.

[artyport]

also omega m has the perfect lean body type that translate both feminine and masculine. 3 pretty faces and one traditionally strong jaw masc face and we have a race of men bunnies that suit everyone!!!